WD2000: Document_Close Event Runs Twice When Quitting Word

ID: Q220438

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Word 2000

SYMPTOMS

When you program a Document_Close event to run Visual Basic for Applications commands when closing a document and you use the following commands to quit Word while the document is still open, the Document_Close event runs twice:

Application.Quit
WordBasic.FileExit
WordBasic.ExitWindows
Application.Tasks.ExitWindows

WORKAROUND

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To work around this problem, you can set a variable flag to bypass the second occurrence of the Document_Close event.

For example:


Sub Document_Close()

   Dim dcFlag As Boolean
   If dcFlag = True Then Exit Sub   ' If we have been here before, exit,
   MsgBox "MyDoc Close Event"       ' else run commands,
   dcFlag = True                    ' then set flag to equal True.

End Sub

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article.

MORE INFORMATION

For more information about using the sample code in this article, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q212536 OFF2000: How to Run Sample Code from Knowledge Base Articles

Additional query words: vba


Keywords          : kbdta wd2000 
Version           : WINDOWS:2000
Platform          : WINDOWS 
Issue type        : kbbug

Last Reviewed: June 15, 1999